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Alice
F. Smedstad
Alice has over 30 years of business experience in human resource
management with an emphasis on creating positive and productive
working environments. She has held executive level positions
for leading companies in various industries.
Her expertise is focused
in:
- Employee
relations – union and non-union
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Organizational change and restructuring
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Management development programs
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Recruitment and training
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Compensation and benefit programs
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Employee communication programs
Alices's
industry experience encompasses:
- Consumer
products
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Financial services
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Hospitality
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Manufacturing
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Non-profits
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Retail
A
selection of her distinguished accomplishments:
- As
the Senior Director Executive Staffing & Employee Relations
for a major consumer products company, Alice initiated
and implemented human resource strategies to maximize executive
and organizational effectiveness throughout the corporation.
She lead the recruitment process for senior officers and
designed and implemented an executive succession planning
process.
- Serving
as Group Vice President – Human Resources for a
regional grocery chain, she was instrumental in numerous
initiatives during a period of rapid growth including;
restructuring of the management team, designing and implementing
a job posting system for 20,000+ employees, redesigning
compensation/benefit programs, rewriting the employee
handbook, and implementing a management training program.
She was also the director of the company’s charitable
foundation.
- Alice
served as the Executive Director of the Governor’s
Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois. In this
capacity she acted as liaison between various special interest
groups and the Governor’s office, directed studies
of the issues impacting women and families in Illinois,
and represented the state at conferences in Washington
D.C.
- As
Vice President Human Resources, she managed the human
resource function for a company that operated the O’Hare
Airport food and beverage concessions, three hotel resort/conference
centers, and a chain of retail food stores.
Alice’s
partial list of companies served:
- Carson
Pirie Scott & Company
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Dominick’s Finer Foods
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The Dial Corp.
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The Proctor & Gamble Company
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State of Illinois
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